Anaphalis. COMPOSITE. 233 



A. dioica, G^htn. 1, c. Freely surculose and forming broad mats : flowering stems 2 to 8 

 or even 12 inches high, bearing few or numerous heads : radical leaves from obovate to 

 spatulate (half-inch to nearly inch long), rarely glabrate above : bracts of the involucre in 

 both sexes with colored (white or rose-colored) and obtuse papery tips: akenes smooth and 

 glabrous or sometimes minutely glandular. (Polymorphous.) — Hook. I.e.; Torr. & Gray, 

 1. c. Gnaphalium dioicum, L., &c. A. hyperborea, Don, Engl. Bot. t. 2640, a glabrate form. 

 A. parvifolia, Nutt. 1. c. {A. dioica, var. parvifolia, Torr. & Gray, 1. c.) ; form with small and 

 very silvery leaves, and involucral bracts rarely of yellowish tinge. — Moist or dry ground, 

 Newfoundland and Labrador, and through the Rocky Mountain region (alpine, subalpine, 

 and lower along the streams), thence southward to New Mexico and S. California, and north- 

 westward to Alaska. (Eu., Asia.) 



Var. congesta, DC. 1. c. A form too little developed, with heads sessile in a rosulate 

 tuft of leaves terminating depressed stems, like the sterile creeping ones, occurs on Sierra 

 Blanca, S. Colorado, at 13,000 feet : and similar but more caulescent forms, from mountains 

 of S. Utah, California, "Wyoming, &c. 



A. plantaginifolia, Hook. I.e. Freely surculose by long and slender sparsely leafy 

 stolons, the offsets biennial : flowering stems more scapif orm, 6 to 1 8 inches high, bearing 

 small linear or lanceolate leaves and a cluster of several heads : radical leaves from roundish 

 ovate to obovate and spatulate, the larger an inch or two long (besides the petiole), soon 

 glabrate and green above, silvery-canescent beneath with a. completely pannose coating, 

 3-5-nerved (but the nerves not rarely obsolete) : involucre very woolly at base ; inner bracts 

 of the male heads with oval or oblong obtuse ivory-white tips, of the larger (4 to 6 lines 

 long) female heads with white or whitish narrow and acute tips : akenes minutely glandular. 

 — Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. c. 431. A. plantaginea, DC. 1. c. Gnaphalium plantaginifolium, L. 

 G. plantagineum, Murr. Syst. 748 ; Pursh, Fl. ii. 525. G. dioicum, var. plantaginifolium, 

 Michx. Fl. ii. 128. — Dry hills and shaded grounds, Hudson's Bay to Florida, Texas, and 

 New Mexico, and northwestward to British Columbia and Washington Territory. — Var. 

 monocephala, Torr. & Gray, is an occasional form, with a single head ; from Louisiana. On 

 the Blue Ridge in Virginia, A. H. Curtiss collected the male of a remarkably small-headed 

 and small-leaved form. 



+- •)— Heads loosely paniculate : involucre almost glabrous. 



A. racemosa, Hook. 1. c. Stoloniferous in the manner of the preceding, lightly woolly, 

 becoming glabrate : flowering stems 6 to 20 inches high, slender, sparsely leafy, bearing few 

 or numerous racemosely or paniculately disposed heads, nearly all slender-pedunculate : leaves 

 thin ; the radical broadly oval, an inch or two long, obscurely 3-nerved at base, rather veiny ; 

 lower cauline oblong ; upper small and lanceolate : involucre scarious, brownish ; the male 

 2 or 3 lines long, of obtuse bracts, the inner obscurely white-tipped ; female 3 or 4 lines long, 

 of narrow and mostly acute bracts: akenes glabrous. — Torr. & Gray, I.e. — Moist woods, 

 Rocky Mountains along the British border, south, to Wyoming, and west to the Cascade 

 Mountains, &c. ; first coll. by Drummond. 



60. ANAPHALIS, DC. Everlasting. (Said by DC. to be an ancient 

 Greek name of some Gnaphalioid plant, and that it may be taken as an anagram 

 of the very similar genus Gnaphalium.') — Chiefly perennial herbs, all but our 

 species Asiatic: f). late^ summer. — Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 303. Anaphalis & 

 Antennaria § Margaripes, DC. Prodr. vi. 270, 271. 



A. margaritacea, Benth. & Hook. 1. c. Commonly a foot or two high, in tufts, very 

 leafy, the white floccose wool rarely becoming tawny: leaves (2 to 5 inches long) from 

 rather broadly to linear-lanceolate, soon glabrate and green above, the broader ones indistinctly 

 3-nerved: heads numerous, corymbosely cymose: bracts of the involucre very numerous, 

 almost wholly pearly white, radiating in age. — Gnaphalium margaritaceum, L. ; Engl. Bot. t. 

 2018. G. Americanum, &c, Clusius, Hist. i. 327, fig. 3. Antennaria margaritacea, R. Br. in 

 Linn. Trans., &c. — Dry fields and open woods, Newfoundland to the Aleutian Islands, and 

 through the northern and cooler portions of the United States, extending south to the 

 higher mountains in Colorado (a var. subalpina, dwarf, broad-leaved, and with few glomerate 

 heads), and the mountains of California. (N.E.Asia. Nat. in Eu.) 



